We are committed to funding cutting-edge research centered on patient outcomes with the long-term goal of a finding a cure. We believe that through collaboration we can achieve success.

Dr. Matthew Ellis

Director of the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, focuses his approach on better understanding the unique biology of an individual patient’s cancer and finding its’ weaknesses to target. The result has been identification of groundbreaking information about mutations in breast cancer tumors.

Dr. Ellis’s research interests include the identification of genes that affect responses and resistance to endocrine therapy in breast cancer patients.